The award-winning actor has hailed Dundee Rep as a “standard bearer of excellence” after it was targeted by the city council for a possible 100 per cent funding cut.

THE songs on Martin Griffiths’s debut solo album have taken a very long time to see the light of day. Half a century, in fact.

Ivan Jovanovic, the Greece manager, has revealed that he takes a keen interest in Scottish football and admitted that Alexandros Kyziridis, the Hearts winger, has caught his attention this season.

Royal Champion ruled supreme over the field to capture the Bahrain International Trophy for Karl Burke, getting up in the final strides to deny Galen’s bid to make all the running.